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UGC NET October 2022 English (Shift-II) — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET October 2022 English (Shift-II) (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

Given below are two statements. Statement I: In My Remembered Village (1976), M.N. Srinivas highlights the ethnographical details of a village, Rampura, near Mysore. Statement II: It also emphasises the importance of economic freedom of the masses required… · Ans: C
Which of the following are novels of Irvine Welsh? · Ans: D
Which of the following are representative texts of "Gynocriticism"? · Ans: D
"Inane gaudiness" is a phrase used in connection with Neo-classicism by · Ans: A
Which of the following is applicable to "New Criticism"? · Ans: A
Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
The following statement is written by which of the authors given below: "Could fulfilment ever be felt as deeply as loss?" · Ans: B
Who among the following refers to "high seriousness" as a quality of a great poet and quotes John Milton to prove the same? · Ans: D
The concept of "eugenics" finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of: · Ans: C
Dev Virahsawmy's 'Toufann' is an adaptation of Shakespeare's play · Ans: D
Marge Piercy's novel 'Woman on the Edge of Time' (1976) is based on · Ans: A
"The Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is written in: · Ans: A
Which of these is related exclusively with Jacques Lacan? · Ans: D
The following statement is given by which of the below mentioned critics? "I was indignant; I demanded an explanation. Nothing happened. I burst apart." · Ans: D
Which of the following statements are true in the context of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749)? · Ans: B
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Which of the following are correctly matched? · Ans: A
Sir David Lyndsay's Satire of the Three Estatis is both · Ans: A
Given below are two statements. Statement I: Roland Barthes believes that the author is "the epitome and culmination of capitalist ideology". Statement II: Walter Benjamin, in his 'The Storyteller', observes that every real story has something useful in… · Ans: A
According to Gerard Genette, which of the following are types of narrators? · Ans: A
Which of the following authors have been correctly matched with their works? · Ans: D
Which of the following is NOT a method of data analysis? · Ans: D
Which of the following are true in the context of "Phenomenology"? · Ans: C
When did T.B. Macaulay present his "Minute on Education" advocating English education in India? · Ans: B
Given below are two statements. Statement I: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can. Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without… · Ans: C
Which of the following works has Santiago as its protagonist? · Ans: C
Given below are two statements. Statement I: Dr. Johnson had an inclination toward the Tory political ideology. Statement II: Dr. Johnson strongly believed in transcendental scepticism. · Ans: A
Who defined 'Hamartia' as 'tragic flaw'? · Ans: A
Match List I with List II: · Ans: C
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's postscript to The General in His Labyrinth (1991) about Simon Bolivar's last journey is one of the finest examples of · Ans: A
Who among the following coined the term "The Movement"? · Ans: C
What are the points of convergence between Derrida and Barthes? · Ans: A
Who among the following is the author of The Steele Glass? · Ans: C
Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
Which of the following are NOT by Rabindranath Tagore? · Ans: C
Which among the following are correctly matched (author and country)? · Ans: D
Which of the following statements are true about Reader Response Criticism? · Ans: C
The predominant emotion running through the poem "Cristina" by Robert Browning is that of · Ans: C
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Which of the following texts coins the slogan "Vande Mataram"? · Ans: A
Who first translated the Bhagavad Gita into English? · Ans: C
Given below are two statements. Statement I: The term "Negative Capability" was coined by John Keats. Statement II: While analysing the term "Dissociation of sensibility", T.S. Eliot proclaims that Hamlet is an artistic failure. · Ans: C
Choose the novels that use 'magic realism' as a tool of narration: · Ans: B
Given below are two statements. Statement I: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (1889) is humorous and journalistic in form. Statement II: It is about three young men and their dog on a holiday. · Ans: A
Uttararamacharita by _______ is based on Valmiki's Ramayana. · Ans: B
Which among the following are true about the figures of speech? · Ans: A
The Voyage and Travail of Sir John Mandeville was written in _______. · Ans: C
Who has used the term "bowling alone" to describe the erosion of community ties in the United States? · Ans: D
Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
Which of the following are applicable to the term 'Carnival'? · Ans: A
Who among the following considers a text as a "site of struggle between authority and popular culture"? · Ans: C
Emblems by Francis Quarles is: · Ans: B
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Given below are two statements. Statement I: The Indian English novelists witnessed a warm reception of their writings in Europe and they proliferated well in India during the 1930s and 1940s. Statement II: The two world wars added… · Ans: A
Given below are two statements. Statement I: The theatre was at a greater popularity in eighteenth-century England. Statement II: Theatre had court patronage in and around London. · Ans: D
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Who among the following is exclusively associated with diary writing in English? · Ans: A
Brij V. Lal's Rama's Banishment deals with the history of Fiji of a time period of _______. · Ans: C
Women of Palestine (1982) and Indian Women in Struggle (1980) deal with: · Ans: B
Identify the postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing 'Euro-centrism': · Ans: A
Identify the correct ones among the following: · Ans: B
Which one is correctly matched? · Ans: B
The Aboriginal Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, in her poem "We are Going", examines the impact of colonial conquest on Aboriginal Australians with reference to: · Ans: A
Gaiutra Bahadur is a _______ writer. · Ans: D
Identify the film/films that were based on Booker-winning novels: · Ans: B
Which among the following is a short story by the Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree? · Ans: C
Which of these books are written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri? · Ans: C
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha was originally written in _______. · Ans: D
Given below are two statements. Statement I: According to Michel Foucault, the French Revolution created grounds for the birth of 'the Clinic'. Statement II: Foucault mentions that the doctors started caring for the body of the patients the… · Ans: A
Who among the following has used lines from the Shakespearean play Othello to critique racism in one of his poems? · Ans: C
Who among the following is associated with the term 'Intentional Fallacy' in literary criticism? · Ans: A
Which of the following statements are true about Ethnographic Research Method? · Ans: D
Identify the correct ones from the following: · Ans: B
Who among the following was a major advocate of Oral History? · Ans: C
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Hudibras of Samuel Butler reflects on the revolt against: · Ans: A
In Kannada literature, the 'Vachana Movement' addressed · Ans: A
Derek Alton Walcott in the poem "The Sea is History" makes a parallel between · Ans: D
Which of the following is NOT a kind of 'sign' as suggested by Charles Sanders Peirce? · Ans: D
Which of the following works is set in the backdrop of the religious persecution in Mexico? · Ans: A
"It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established." This passage, considered the… · Ans: C
Identify the correct pairs: · Ans: C
Abt Vogler is authored by · Ans: B
Which of the following statements hold true with respect to Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism"? · Ans: D
Match List I with List II: · Ans: D
Which of the following are the premises of Postcolonial Criticism? · Ans: B
Find the chronological order of publication of the given works: · Ans: B
Match List I with List II: · Ans: B
Given below are two statements. Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from "a pure and neutral aesthetic realm". Statement II: Derrida believed that the outside influence in assessment of aesthetics… · Ans: A
Artistic literature is the representation of: · Ans: B
Which of the following is closest to what the author means by "less ambitious form of literature"? · Ans: A
In the above passage, Walter Pater's statement "Imaginative prose should be special" implies: · Ans: C
According to the author, prose should be: · Ans: C
Which of these expressions closely represents the meaning of 'fervid'? · Ans: B
The poem deals with _______. · Ans: D
Why does the poet seek pardon from the Gods? · Ans: C
In the first line of the poem, "Icarian bird" connotes _______. · Ans: D
Which figure of speech is implicit in "light-winged smoke!"? · Ans: A
The word "Lark" in the third line means _______. · Ans: D

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